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Book SynopsisAs an unparalleled introduction to missionary communication, this thoroughly indexed book examines world views, cognitive processes, linguistic forms, behavioral patterns, social structures, communication media, and motivational sources.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS Figures Foreword to First Edition Foreword to Revised Edition Preface Part I Communication and Mission 1. Communication, the Missionary Problem Par Excellence 2. Man, The Communicating Creature 3. The Legacy of Rhetoric to Christian Communication 4. Perspectives From the Science of Communication 5. The Problem of Meaning 6. Why Do Missionaries Communicate? Part II Communication and Culture 7. The Role of Culture in Communication 8. Christ and His Communicators Confront Culture 9. Contextualization – Its Theological Roots 10. Cross-Cultural Communication – Classic Categories and Paradigms 11. Cross-Cultural Communciation – Contemporary Categories and Paradigms 12. Respondents of Other Cultures Part III Worldviews – Ways of Perceiving the World 13. Worldviews and Cross Cultural Communication 14. Communicating Christ Into the Naturalist Worldview 15. Communicating Christ Into the Tribal Worldview 16. Communicating Christ Into the Hindu-Buddhistic Worldview 17. Communicating Christ Into a Chinese Worldview 18. Communicating Christ Into Other Monotheistic Worldviews 19. Communicating Christ Into the Worldviews of Syncretism and Multireligion Part IV Cognitive processes – Ways of Thinking 20. The Importance of How We Know What We Know 21. Cultural Differences and the Cognitive Process 22. Conceptual Thinking and the Western Missionary 23. Communicating Christ in Cultural Areas Where Intuitional Thinking Predominates 24. Communicating Christ in Cultural Areas Where Concrete Relational Thinking Predominates Part V Linguistic Forms – Ways of Expressing Ideas 25. The Importance of Language 26. Why Bother to Learn the Language? 27. Learning About Language Learning 28. What Can We Learn From Languages? Part VI Behavioral Patterns – Ways of Acting 29. From Plato and Aristotle to Edward T. Hall 30. The Missionary and Behavioral Norms 31. Seven Aspects of the “Behavioral Dimension” 32. Where the Action Is Part VII Social Structures – Ways of Interacting 33. Communicating and Social Orientations 34. Status and Role 35. Kinship: Kindred and Lineage 36. Nonkinship Groupings 37. Urban and Rural Societies 38. Free and Totalitarian Societies Part VIII Media Influence – Ways of Channeling the Message 39. Media Have Their Own “Messages” 40. Using Simple Media 41. Using Syndetic Media Part IX Motivational Resources – Ways of Deciding 42. From Persuasion to Elenctics 43. Psychology, Ethnopsychology, and Mission 44. Motivation, Decision Making, and Conversion 45. Receptivity and Missionary Response Bibliography Index of Persons Index of Subjects Index of Scripture References
